Studies in writing [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 25 Learning to write effectively : current trends in European research / / edited by Mark Torrance, ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792093603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley [UK], : Emerald, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-58867-6; 9786613901125; 1-78052-929-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (462 p.)
• Collana: Studies in writing ; ; v. 25
• Altri autori (Persone): TorranceMark
• Disciplina: 808.042071; 808.0666
• Soggetti: Writing; Written communication
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.; Acknowledgements
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Mark Torrance , Denis Alamargot , Montserrat Castelló , Franck Ganier , Otto Kruse , Anne Mangen , Liliana Tolchinsky and Luuk van Waes -- Chapter 1.00.01: Introduction: Writing Development / Liliana Tolchinsky -- Chapter 1.00.02: Early Development of Handwriting Motor Skills / Olga Soler Vilageliu , Sonia Kandel and Melina Aparici Aznar -- Chapter 1.00.03: Effects of Orthographic Consistency on Children’s Spelling Development / Marie-Claire Hazard , Bruno De Cara and Lucile Chanquoy -- Chapter 1.00.04: Acquisition of Spelling Skills with Regard to the Norwegian Language / Astrid Skaathun and Per Henning Uppstad -- Chapter 1.00.05: The Impact of Open and Closed Vowels on the Evolution of Pre-School Children’s Writing / Cristina Silva and Margarida Alves -- Chapter 1.00.06: Copying Ability in Primary School: A Working Memory Approach / Christian Weinzierl , Joachim Grabowski and Markus Schmitt -- Chapter 1.00.07: Acquisition of Linearization in Writing, from Grades 5 to 9 / Lucie Beauvais , Monik Favart , Jean-Michel Passerault and Thierry Olive -- Chapter 1.00.08: Construct-Relevant or ; Construct-Irrelevant Variance in Measures of Reading? / Oddny Judith Solheim and Per Henning Uppstad -- Chapter 1.00.09: Studying Written Language Development in Different Contexts, Languages and Writing Systems / Liliana Tolchinsky and Joan Perera -- Chapter 1.00.10: The Impact of Oral Language Skills on Children’s Production of Written Text / Julie Dockrell , Vincent Connelly , Geoff Lindsay and Clare Mackie -- Chapter 1.00.11: The Development of Written Language in Children with Language Impairment / Judy Reilly , Jun O’Hara , Darin Woolpert , Naymé Salas , Beverly Wulfeck and Liliana Tolchinsky -- Chapter 1.00.12: Improving Anaphoric Cohesion in Deaf Students’ Writing / Barbara Arfe , Pietro Boscolo and Silvia Sacilotto -- Chapter 2.00.01: Introduction: Teaching and Learning Writing / Montserrat Castelló and Otto Kruse -- Chapter 2.01.01: Implementation of Self-Regulated Writing Strategies in Elementary Classes / Sandra Budde -- Chapter 2.01.02: Evaluating Cognitive Self-Regulation Instruction for Developing Students’ Writing Competence / Raquel Fidalgo , Mark Torrance , Patricia Robledo and Jesús-Nicasio García -- Chapter 2.01.03: Are Help Levels Effective in Textual Revision? / Olga Arias-Gundín and Jesús-Nicasio García -- Chapter 2.01.04: A Spanish Research Line Focused on the Improvement of Writing Composition in Students With and Without LD / Jesús-Nicasio García and Esther García-Martín -- Chapter 2.01.05: Results of Writing Products After a Motivational Intervention Programme According to Students’ Motivational Levels / Ana M. de Caso and Jesús-Nicasio García -- Chapter 2.01.06: Can Different Instructional Programmes Achieve Different Results on Students’ Writing Attitudes and Writing Self-Efficacy? / Ana M. de Caso and Jesús-Nicasio García -- Chapter 2.01.07: Enhancing Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Students With Learning Disabilities Improves Their Writing Processes and Writing Products / Ana M. de Caso and Jesús-Nicasio García -- Chapter 2.01.08: Comparative Studies of Strategy and Self-Regulated Interventions in Students With Learning Disabilities / Raquel Fidalgo and Jesús-Nicasio García.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a detailed overview of current or recent research exploring a wide range of ideas, theories, and practices around written text production. European researchers from a broad range of disciplines brought together under the European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively were instructed to contribute short papers summarising their current activity. The papers are grouped around the four main themes. The first deals with issues around the development of basic (\'low-level\') writing skills, mainly in the early years of education. The second section focuses directly on issues around the teaching and learning of writing. This is divided into five parts that describe: evaluations of different forms of writing instruction, research exploring the processes by which writers learn, methods of text assessment in educational contexts, research exploring the effects of various learner and teacher variables on the development of writing skill, and conceptions of and variation in educational text genres. The third section reports research exploring effective document design. The final section has a main focus on tools for exploring the writing process.

The Art of Error Correcting Coding [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910831055703321
• Autore: Morelos-Zaragoza Robert H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Wiley, 2006
• ISBN: 1-280-51916-9; 9786610519163; 0-470-03570-6; 0-470-03569-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Classificazione: 54.10
• Disciplina: 621.3822; 621.38220151
• Soggetti: Computer algorithms; Error-correcting codes (Information theory); Mathematics; Electrical & Computer Engineering; Telecommunications; Algebra; Engineering & Applied Sciences; Physical Sciences & Mathematics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: The Art of Error Correcting Coding; Contents; Preface; Foreword; The ECC web site; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Error correcting coding: Basic concepts; 1.1.1 Block codes and convolutional codes; 1.1.2 Hamming distance, Hamming spheres and error correcting capability; 1.2 Linear block codes; 1.2.1 Generator and parity-check matrices; 1.2.2 The weight is the distance; 1.3 Encoding and decoding of linear block codes; 1.3.1 Encoding with G and H; 1.3.2 Standard array decoding; 1.3.3 Hamming spheres, decoding regions and the standard array; 1.4 Weight distribution and error performance; 1.4.1 Weight distribution and undetected error probability over a BSC1.4.2 Performance bounds over BSC, AWGN and fading channels; 1.5 General structure of a hard-decision decoder of linear codes; Problems; ; 2 Hamming, Golay and Reed-Muller codes; 2.1 Hamming codes; 2.1.1 Encoding and decoding procedures; 2.2 The binary Golay code; 2.2.1 Encoding; 2.2.2 Decoding; 2.2.3 Arithmetic decoding of the extended (24, 12, 8) Golay code; 2.3 Binary Reed-Muller codes; 2.3.1 Boolean polynomials and RM codes; 2.3.2 Finite geometries and majority-logic decoding; Problems; 3 Binary cyclic codes and BCH codes; 3.1 Binary cyclic codes3.1.1 Generator and parity-check polynomials; 3.1.2 The generator polynomial; 3.1.3 Encoding and decoding of binary cyclic codes; 3.1.4 The parity-check polynomial; 3.1.5 Shortened cyclic codes and CRC codes; 3.1.6 Fire codes; 3.2 General decoding of cyclic codes; 3.2.1 GF(2m) arithmetic; 3.3 Binary BCH codes; 3.3.1 BCH bound; 3.4 Polynomial codes; 3.5 Decoding of binary BCH codes; 3.5.1 General decoding algorithm for BCH codes; 3.5.2 The Berlekamp-Massey algorithm (BMA); 3.5.3 PGZ decoder; 3.5.4 Euclidean algorithm; 3.5.5 Chien search and error correction; 3.5.6 Errors-and-erasures decoding3.6 Weight distribution and performance bounds; 3.6.1 Error performance evaluation; Problems; 4 Nonbinary BCH codes: Reed-Solomon codes; 4.1 RS codes as polynomial codes; 4.2 From binary BCH to RS codes; 4.3 Decoding RS codes; 4.3.1 Remarks on decoding algorithms; 4.3.2 Errors-and-erasures decoding; 4.4 Weight distribution; Problems; 5 Binary convolutional codes; 5.1 Basic structure; 5.1.1 Recursive systematic convolutional codes; 5.1.2 Free distance; 5.2 Connections with block codes; 5.2.1 Zero-tail construction; 5.2.2 Direct-truncation construction; 5.2.3 Tail-biting construction5.2.4 Weight distributions; 5.3 Weight enumeration; 5.4 Performance bounds; 5.5 Decoding: Viterbi algorithm with Hamming metrics; 5.5.1 Maximum-likelihood decoding and metrics; 5.5.2 The Viterbi algorithm; 5.5.3 Implementation issues; 5.6 Punctured convolutional codes; 5.6.1 Implementation issues related to punctured convolutional codes; 5.6.2 RCPC codes; Problems; 6 Modifying and combining codes; 6.1 Modifying codes; 6.1.1 Shortening; 6.1.2 Extending; 6.1.3 Puncturing; 6.1.4 Augmenting, expurgating and lengthening; 6.2 Combining codes; 6.2.1 Time sharing of codes
• Sommario/riassunto: Building on the success of the first edition, which offered a practical introductory approach to the techniques of error concealment, this book, now fully revised and updated, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject and includes a wealth of additional features. The Art of Error Correcting Coding, Second Edition explores intermediate and advanced level concepts as well as those which will appeal to the novice. All key topics are discussed, including Reed-Solomon codes, Viterbi decoding, soft-output decoding algorithms, MAP, log-MAP and MAX-log-MAP. Reliability-based algorith